Window structure



C. SATTLER ET AL WINDOW STRUCTURE Filed July 5, 1927 Patented Jan; 29, 1929.

, UNITED- STATES CARL SATTLER AND HOWARD B. HA-SKNS, p

ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE DURA COMPANY, F TOLEDO,Y OHIO, A CORPORATION OF onto.

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OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNORS, BY MESNE yWINDOW STRUCTURE.

Application tiled July 5,

The invention relates to lwindow structures and refers more particularly to window structures for` railway cars.

structure that the windows may be raised or lowered by window regulators to open or closed positions. Another object is to provide means for effectively sealing the spaces between the windows and the frame ofthe car when the windows are closed to prevent the entrance ot smoke, dust, moisture or the like into the car. A further object is to provide s means for closing the space between a window or the like into the car.

. screen when lowered and a window when opened to prevent the entrance of smoke, dust With these'as well as other objects in view, the invention resides Cil -in the novel features ot construction as more fully hereinafter set forth. V

In the drawings Figure 1 is an interior side elevation, parte ly broken away, of a portion of a railway car having applied thereto a window structure embodying our invention;

Figures 2' and 3 are' respectively cross sections on the lines 2,-2 and 3-3 of Figure 1.

The vehicle to which our invention is particularly applicable is a Pullman car having a frame including the laterally spacedl metallic 'uprights 1, the metallic sills 2 extending between these uprights'and located at the bot.- tom ofthe window opening, and the inner and outer top bars 3 and Il above the window opening and. extending between the nprights.. The car is also provided with the inner and outer panels-5 and 6, which 'together with the uprights form a chamber 7 above the window opening.

8 and 9 are respectively tlieinner and outer windows for the window opening, each being in the nature of a sashless glass vertically slidable in the guides 10 which are suitably mounted upon Ythe uprights 1 in such a manner that the spaces between the guides andv the uprights are closed to prevent the entrance of smoke, dust, moistureor the like into the car. 11`is a vertically movable screen slidablyA engaging the metallic guides 12 which are secured to the uprights 1, this screen being `movable between the inner and.v outer windows. For raising or lowering the windows 8 and 9 to open or closed positions there are the pivotal lifter arms 13 and 14 respectively, which ormparts of separate window regulators so that either window may One of the objects of the invention is to so construct the window 1927. serial No. 203,362.

be raised orrlowered independently 'of the other. These lifter arms extend within the chamber 7 and have at their tree ends; the transverse projections 15 which may be suitably secured to the lifter arms and are engageable in the grooves formed by theretainers 16 and channels 17, the latter embracing and being secured to the upper edges A of the glasses. The screen 11 is also-raised and lowered and as shown 1n theV present 1nstance the .screen is'operated upon movement of the inner glass 8 as by means of cables 18 having one end connected to the top of the chamber 7 and the other end connected tol the top of the screen, intermediate portions of each cable passing over pulleys 19' and 20 secured respectively to the top ofthe inner glass 8 and the top of the chamber. The are rangement is such that upon upward movement of the inner glass the screen is lowered and its rate ot travelistwice that otthe outer glass. As a consequence, this screen when not in use may he fully concealed within the chamber 7.

For the purpose of sealing the spaces between the upper edges of the glasses 8 and 9 'and the frame of the car when these glasses .inner glass 8 ismounted in the transversely extending channel 23 of the retainer v24e which is secured to the outer side of the inner top bar 3. The weatherstrip 21 for the outer glass!) is secured in the channel 25 oftheretainer 26. which has at itsupper end the v transverse flange 27 secured to the outer top bar 4. The lower edges of the retainers 21 and 26 and the inner top bar 3 are preferably in the same horizontal plane and define the upper edge of the window opening.

For sealing the joint between the lower edges of the glasses 8 and 9 andthe sill 2 when these glasses are in theirfully lowered or closed positions, there are the .resilient weatherstrips 28 which may be formed of rubber or the like. Each of thesexweatherstrips has a Y-shaped cross section and its stem 29 extends transversely of the glassat its lower edge and is firmly secured thereto' while its legs and 31 areadapted to abut the sill at spacedpoints the leg 30 extending ,under the glass. lFor -securing eachA weatherstrip 28 to its glass, there -is thev 'cannot become :incidentallyr disengaged.

To seal the space between the screen v11 when lowered-and the outer glass 9when raised so that smoke dust and the like can` not enter the car in the event that the innerl glass 8 is. also raised to open position, there is the resilient weatherstrip 34 preferably secured to the upper edge of the screen and engageable with the inner side of the chan,- nel 32 upon the outer glass. The joint between the lower edve of the screen vand the sill is also sealed lby. a resilientY weatherstrip 35. 'f v What we claim as our invention is: -Y

'1. The combination with a vehicle havimr a frame providing a window opening and a-Lsill at thelowerend ofthe opening,'of a vertically movable window for the opening, and a resilient weatherstrip vsecured 'to said window and having a plurality of legs of equal length for simultaneously engagln said sill when said window 1s 1n Alowere position.

2. The combinationwith a 'vehiclehaving" Y a frame providing a-'window opening and a sill at the lower end of the opening, of 'a vertically movable Window for the opening, and a resilient Y-shaped weatherstrip havl ing its stem secured tosaid window and its legs engageable' with said sill.

3. The combination with a vehicle having a frame providing awindow opening and a sill at thelower end of the opening, of a .vertically movable glass constitutinga winlwindow, a verticall movable screen, and a dow, a channel embracing the lower edge of said glass and having a return bent portion at one of its sides and a resilient Y-shaped weatherstri havinr its stem secured to'said clip by sai returntbent portion and its legs engageable with said sill when said glass is,

' in lowered position.

. 4. The combination with a vehicle having a window4 opening, of a vertically movable window,v a vertically movable screen, and means upon one of said members engageable with the other when said screen is in fully lowered position and said window is in fully raised position.

5. The combination with a vehicle having a window opening, of a vertically movable window, a vertically movable screen, and.

-means upon said screen engageable with said window, when saidscreen is in vfully low-v ered, sition and said winjdow is in fully raise position.

6. The' combination with a vehicle having a window opening, of a vertically movable weatherstrip carrie' by the upperend of said' Y screen and-engageable with the-lower end of said window when said screen is in fully lowered position and said window is in fully raised position.'

`v7. The combination with a vehicle having a frame roviding awindow opening and a Vsill at t e lower end of the opening, of a vertically movable window for the opening, and a yieldable weatherstrip having a portion secured to said window and a second portion extending from said first mentionedg portion'and having spaced points wf contactv with said sill when the window 'is in -lowered position, the two sections of said weath- 85 erstrlp' being relatively- `movable so as to per; mit'an eliic1ent sealing action between the second section and said sill.

In testimony whereof we aix our signa- 

